Herbert Hoover actually said...

"It represents our people in their most generous, unselfish, and spontaneously warmhearted character."

"Through the loftiest of all spiritual qualities--charity--it has become the guardian of the people from suffering in times of disaster."

"By its very purpose it compels the respect for its own flag and its own passports."

"The 50 years of the life of the Red Cross, which the American people celebrate today, have been years of evolution of an impulse and an idea and a method to produce this greatest institution in allevi..."